Urticaria: Selected highlights and recent advances

Medical Clinics of North America

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 187-209

  Dibbern Jr , Donald A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CETIRIZINE; COLCHICINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYCLOSPORIN; CYCLOSPORIN A; DAPSONE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOXEPIN; FEXOFENADINE; FOOD ALLERGEN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; HYDROXYZINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LORATADINE; METHOTREXATE; MONTELUKAST; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PROSTACYCLIN; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; TERBUTALINE; THYROXINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG; ZILEUTON;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ALLERGIC URTICARIA; ALLERGY TEST; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC URTICARIA; COLD URTICARIA; DERMOGRAPHISM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOOD ALLERGY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROVOCATION TEST; RASH; REVIEW; SKIN TEST; SOLAR URTICARIA; STROKE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URTICARIA; VASCULITIS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; URTICARIA;

EID: 27944453520     PISSN: 00257125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2005.08.003     Document Type: Review

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